Christopher Weeks

I want to read this and think about a response with some time, but to answer your simplest question, our ground is frozen from the end of October through the end of April. And that’s why I need to hurry with my harvest.

I think all eight of my great grandparents moved from the land to the city. Neither of my grandmothers really knew much about cooking, and my grandfathers were helpless. The only thing I can think of like this is that my mom's mom's mom was sort of infamous for harvesting weeds in vacant lots in Los Angeles and making my mom eat them. My mom thought that was barbaric but her stories of it seemed like romantic adventure to me. So, even before I really started getting serious about wanting to change my life and move to a homestead, I started eating the weird plants that Euell Gibbons and Foxfire said were OK -- mostly as a 'mess of greens' in some fat. That's about it for multi-generational stuff for me. I guess there are lots of things Cathy and I make that our folks did, but we're better cooks than our forebears so a lot of it is pretty different.

Garbage. Neither of my parents knew what real bread even was. When I was ten or so, I stopped eating bread until my mom would buy fake "whole grain" bread and then I kept pushing the family into seedier and coarser bread. It's pretty much the opposite of what every other kid wants out of bread.

My impression is that a substantial chunk of the uproar about the declining (Anglo-Saxon) birthrates just now is a branch of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.

This is my second patch of sunchokes. They were planted late fall of 2023. It's 2/3 Lofthouse sunchokes and 1/3 mixed others. I only harvested a few around the back right (in this picture) edge last fall. Last year they grew fewer plants, but each seemed more vigorous -- thicker stalks, taller, more flowers.

What happens to a patch that you don't harvest? Once? After years? And what's the yield like after neglect? I'm trying to gauge how important it is to disrupt the whole patch.

And if you don't have especially friable soil, how do you harvest at a reasonable speed? I find this takes hours of hard work to get relatively few. I have a half inch of soil, eight inches of sand(y loam), and then dozens of feet of sand and rocks that have compacted somehow even without much clay.

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The local band is hiring and it seemed like maybe someone who reads Permies would be qualified.

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That's really cool, but it seems like a bunch of them are gone. I wonder what new has popped up in the intervening decade.

Do any permies use Mastodon for social networking on the Fediverse? I've been thinking about trying to move there for several years, but it sounds harder than usual and haven't ever got up the gumption.

It's funny, I just read this and didn't remember it from when it was new. But I see that I answered 17 months ago! Now I'm going to answer the opposite -- I'm contrarian even to myself. Assuming that the same real-life level of ability to terminate my own life exists, then I'll take the 1000 years. From this:

For the first option, say, when you’re two hundred years old, you feel physically like you’re twenty. Five hundred, fifty. Etc.

it sounds like I'd get three hundred years basically never getting sick anyway, so that's a win over 100 years of never getting sick. And if I want to linger on with gradually increasing infirmity, I can make that choice day by day, just like I do right now.

I take from that video up top that there's some kind of competition between the villages to create water-catchment/seepage systems and one of them wins a prize. The prize is fine, I guess, but the really great thing is that even the losers presumably have improved their lot. It's a neat structure.